The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education

ISBN-13: 9780367581374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 510 str.

Gareth Smith; Zack Moir; Matt Brennan

Opis

Popular music is a growing presence in education, formal and otherwise, from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes, courses and modules in popular music studies, popular music performance, songwriting and areas of music technology are becoming commonplace across higher education. Additionally, specialist pop/rock/jazz graded exam syll

O autorze

Gareth Dylan Smith is　Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London. He　is founding co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music Education, lead editor of the forthcoming Punk Pedagogies in Practice, and co-author, with Hildegard Froehlich, of Sociology for Music Teachers: Practical Applications (second edition). Gareth’s research interests include identity, music and leisure, eudaimonism, autoethnographic research methods, and embodiment in performance. He plays drums with V1, Oh Standfast and Stephen Wheel.

Zack Moir is a Lecturer in Popular Music at Edinburgh Napier University and the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK. His research interests are in popular music in higher education, popular music composition pedagogy, and the teaching and learning of improvisation. He is an active composer and performer, and has published on the topics of popular music pedagogy, popular music making and leisure, and popular music songwriting/composition.

Matt Brennan is a Chancellor’s Fellow of Music at the University of Edinburgh and has served as Chair of the UK and Ireland branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). His current research interests are the drum kit, live music, and music and sustainability. He is the co-author of The History of Live Music in Britain (2013) and is currently writing a social history of the drum kit.

Shara Rambarran is Assistant Professor of Music at the Bader International Study Centre, Queen’s University, Canada. She received her PhD in Music from the University of Salford, UK. Her research interests include popular musicology, postproduction, digital technology, remixology, music industry, events management, education and law (Intellectual Property Rights). She is an editor of the Journal on the Art of Record Production and co-editor of　The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality (2016).

Phil Kirkman is Principal Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. He was previously Course Director for Music and for Professional Studies (PGCE) at the University of Cambridge. Before this, Phil worked for over a decade as a teacher, pastoral manager and department leader in UK secondary schools. He regularly consults and provides training for education professionals in the UK and internationally. Phil's current research interests include educational technologies, innovative pedagogy, dialogic education and practitioner research.